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There are some fairly highly ranked red state public schools that are probably less-left-leaning than most given the leverage state elected officials have over the institutions: Texas and Florida have both explicitly banned school-sponsored DEI initiatives. At least Texas A&M has a bit of a reputation for conservativism, and at least in the past when I've talked to lefties from Colorado they treat Colorado Springs as a very red part of the state because of the Air Force Academy there, but that may be a bit out of date at that point.
I'd bet any heavily-Greek school is "conservative" in at least a change-averse, slightly-social-conservative fashion that might not map to politica, but I don't have direct experience there. And this isn't to say that these schools are necessarily right-of-center, but more right-leaning than most universities.
University of Texas is not a conservative school, but it’s very willing to tolerate conservatism compared to similarly-liberal schools for straight forwards reasons that benefit itself(enjoying very high rankings and donations in Law and geology, most prominently). Notre Dame has been trending more conservative and was never as liberal you’d have expected, and it’s very highly ranked. Texas A&M is known for conservatism and tbf, it has creationists as a percent of faculty equivalent to BYU, which is indicative of at least allowing a certain type of conservatism.
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